Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…

Real talk, why did his dad say not to go up to the palace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: do, say, not go up · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1545 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 42: the youth frees the princesses, wins a queen, and sets out to find Whiteland» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 go	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		Real talk		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	his dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go up	to-infinitive			to the palace	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

they'd take the boy and never give him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 give	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 give	advmod
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	they		the boy				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination
2	not give back	infinitive	they not said here		boy				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he thought they'd lose their fun with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fun	nmod:poss
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	would	they	their fun				with him = he	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Eventuality

Option 3

it was too far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	it					far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the other King was a bad man indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 man	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the other King	a bad man				indeed property	tree rules

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